Tag: Media
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Successful SCOAP3 Global Open Access initiative continues for three more years
After 3 years of successful operation and growth, CERN announced today the continuation of the global SCOAP3 Open Access initiative for at least three more years.
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CERN welcomes Romania as its twenty-second Member State
Today, the Romanian flag has been raised in front of CERN for the first time, marking the country’s accession to Membership of the Organization.
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The LHC MoEDAL experiment publishes its first paper on its search for magnetic monopoles
The MoEDAL experiment at CERN narrows the window of where to search for a hypothetical particle, the magnetic monopole.
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Chicago sees floods of LHC data and new results at the ICHEP 2016 conference
Particle physicists are showcasing a wealth of brand new results from the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN at the “ICHEP 2016” conference in Chicago.
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CERN announces winners of its 2016 beamline for schools competition
CERN today announced the winners of its 2016 Beamline for Schools competition.Two teams of high-school students, “Pyramid hunters” (Poland) and “Relatively Special” (UK), have been selected to carry out their own experiments using a CERN accelerator beam.
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CERN experiment points to a cloudier pre-industrial climate
New results from the CLOUD experiment at CERN imply the baseline pristine pre-industrial climate may have been cloudier than presently thought.
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The 2016 physics season starts at the LHC
Geneva, 9 May 2016. CERN1‘s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments are back in action, now taking physics data for 2016 that will give us an improved understanding of fundamental physics. On 25 March, the most powerful collider in the world was switched back on after its annual winter break. The accelerator complex and
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CERN Director-General Rolf Heuer passes the baton to Fabiola Gianotti
Geneva, 18 December 2015. The 178th session of the CERN Council today saw the handover ceremony from Rolf Heuer, CERN1’s Director-General for the past seven years, to Fabiola Gianotti, who will take up her functions at the head of the Organization on 1 January 2016. On the same day, Sijbrand de Jong will become the
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The LHC collides ions at new record energy
Geneva, 25 November 2015. After the successful restart of the Large Hadron Collider and its first months of data taking with proton collisions at a new energy frontier, the LHC is moving to a new phase, with the first lead-ion collisions of season 2 at an energy about twice as high as that of any
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LHC luminosity upgrade project moving to next phase
Geneva, 29 October 2015. This week more than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world met at CERN1 to discuss the High-Luminosity LHC – a major upgrade to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will increase the accelerator’s discovery potential from 2025. Geneva, 29 October 2015. This week more than 230 scientists and engineers